Improvement in medical compositions



UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE.

LEVI OOBFMAN, OF FINDLAY, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOSITIONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,853, dated August17, 1875; application filed July 19, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEVI GORFMAN, of Findlay,in the county of Hancock and State of Ohio, have invented a new anduseful Medical Composition; and I hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the manner of compounding andusing the same.

This invention relates to that class of medical compositions designed tobe used in the treatment of displacements and diseases of the womb, suchas prolapsus uteri, or falling of the womb, anteversion, retroversion,ulceration of the womb, and leucorrhoea, fluor albus,

or whites; and it consists in a medical compound formed by mixingtogether the follow- I in g-nanied ingredients, obtaining therefrom afluid extract, and mixing the latter with alcohol in the manner andproportions hereinafter set forth.

To prepare the composition, take the following-named ingredients intheir crude state, and in substantially the proportions hereinafter setforth, viz: Cornus Florida, one half ounce; hydrastis Oanadensis,one-half ounce; frasera verticillata, one ounce; gentiana, onehalfounce; populus, one-half ounce; chelone glabra, one half. ounce; prnnusVirginiana, one ounce; humulus lupulus, one-halfounce; anthemis,one-half ounce; geranium maculatum, one half ounce; nymphzea odorata,one and one-half ounce; rhus glabrum, one ounce rubus villosus, one andone-half ounce; pinus Canadensis, two ounces.

Mix the above ingredients together, place them in a tin vessel with asufficient quantity of water to cover them, and subject them to heatuntil the strength has been extracted from them; after which strain theliquor thus procured through a fine cloth into another tin vessel, andlet it stand until it settles. When the liquor thus procured has becomesettled, pour it off, and add to it alcohol in the proportion of tenounces of alcohol to twenty-two ounces of the liquor, and bottle it,ready for use.

The directions for treating the displacements and diseases of the wombabove mentioned are the same in each case, viz: Take one ounce of themedical composition above described, heat it to a blood heat, and injectit, with a common vaginal syringe, to the womb, repeating the operationonce, so that the injections will number two per diem.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A medical composition, consisting of cornus Florida, hydrastisGanadensis, frasera verticillata, gentiana, populus, chelone glabra,prunus Virginiana, humulus lupulus, anthemis, geranium macnlatum,nymphzea odorata, rh us glabrnm, rubus villosus, and pinus Oanadensis,substantially in the proportions and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing medical compound, as abovedescribed, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th day of July,1875.

LEVI OORFMAN. [1,.

Witnesses:

0. A. BALLARD, GEo. F. PENDLEToN.

